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Usually at the top of the show, I speak for a few minutes by myself.

I rant and rave about something that has royally pissed me off.

And something happened a few weeks ago that really, really royally pissed me off.

And I blew up about it on Twitter and I blew up about it on my blog.

But I didn't talk about it on the podcast because I didn't want to rant about it solo.

A first for the podcast, I wanted to have a little co- rant at the top of the show and bring in somebody to rant with me on this particular topic.

Joining me by phone, E.J. Graff, columnist for the American Prospect, where she writes about gender and sexuality issues and author of What is Marriage for, the Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, which is an excellent book, and I recommend it, and I've given it as gifts. Hey, E.J., thanks for jumping on the phone with me. Hey, Dan, I'm honored.

So you wrote about this case, and I've ranted and raved about this case, and all Americans, I think, need to be familiar with this difficult to pronounce name.

Savita Halapanavar, who was an Indian, not American.

She was an Indian woman who was traveling, who was in Ireland.

I believe seven months pregnant, is that correct?

17 weeks pregnant.

17 weeks pregnant.

That's less than seven months.

And I had that, the visiting business wrong.

She and her husband were living there.

He was working for Boston Scientific in Galway.

And they had actually moved there from India because they heard Ireland was a good place

to raise a family.

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